What Happened: Shares of Berkshire Hathaway’s class B shares have risen by 9.41% in 2025, being one of the only few S&P 500 components that are still in the green amid the ongoing market selloff. The S&P 500 index, on the other hand, has fallen 13.54% on a year-to-date basis.
While, has been a flurry of speculations over the company’s cash pile, having the liquid form of dollars has helped the company avert losses amid President Donald Trump‘s tariff-fueled crash on Wall Street.
Berkshire Hathaway’s cash and cash equivalents totaled a record $334.2 billion as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2024.
The firm has also added $87.81 billion in investor wealth in 2025 as its market capitalization has risen from $978.19 billion as of Dec. 31, 2024, to $1,066 billion as of Friday, April 4.
Buffett is also among the only one of the top 10 billionaires, according to Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index, to witness a net worth gain of $12.7 billion in 2025.
Why It Matters: While Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is the largest part of Berkshire’s portfolio, it is well diversified across manufacturing, energy, and retail businesses.
Berkshire is also one of the few firms that is trading above its 200-day simple moving average of $462.38 apiece. With a relative strength index of 38.2, it is in the neutral zone.
Its MACD line of +4.51 showed that its 12-period exponential moving average is above the 26-period EMA, indicating a bullish trend. However, the histogram was negative at -4.81, meaning that the MACD line was falling further below the signal line. This depicts that the bearish momentum is increasing amid the bullish trend.
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